The rise in ghost tourism may be a surprising millennial trend. Considering that it is human nature to ponder and confront our own mortality through exploring the "unknown" and perhaps reassuring ourselves that there is something more after death its popularity is understandable. Some even suggest that metaphysical anomalies have caused the veil to thin so that ghostly phenomena are more frequent. Whatever the cause, it is clear that modern advances have given many the luxury of time and money to explore it.
A question of ethics arises, though, when we accept the fact that is becoming clear through our increasing experiential knowledge that ghosts are the disembodied personalities of those once living that have the capability of intelligently and emotionally interacting with living people. Too often I have seen ghost "hunts" on television or heard stories relayed of these experiences in which certain provoking activities have been used to try and cause the phenomena to occur.
Most often the phenomenon of the "spirit" or "ghost" is explained by "trapped energy". Often a traumatic life or death is used to explain the cause of the entrapment. It is also clear from much EVP evidence that these spirits are indeed suffering spiritually or emotionally and often historical facts support the context. It would seem to me that furthering the suffering of these entities by emotionally upsetting or angering them in order to provoke a response should be viewed as abusive. It doesn't help that a common knee-jerk reaction to any unknown phenomena are instantly hailed as "evil" or "inhuman".
We readily accept the fact that in life there are good and bad people. There are angry people in life as there most likely are in death. It is common that an angry person will exclaim "I'm going to kill you" in anger while alive, but as soon as this exclamation comes from "the unknown" it is "evil", "dark", "demonic". I can't rule out the existence of evil or demons though I don't believe in them myself, but I have noticed these terms being being applied to evidence that does not necessarily spell out "evil" but could be the result of an angry ghost as they would of an angry person. This anger could be the cause of the continuation of the entrapment of the spirit.
It is known that many psychic mediums can help spirits over to the
"other side". What the "other side" is believed to be depends on your belief system. Personally, as I believe rehabilitation is possible for living souls, I also believe it's possible for deceased souls. I don't believe in heaven or hell, but in a "moving on place", a place where we can heal ourselves and rest after any incarnation whether you believe in single or multiple incarnations. Isn't it our
responsibility to try and help these entities as best we can by
assisting them to the other side and not to further entrap them by saddening or angering them through our irresponsible interactions with them? Even if you believe in "evil" don't you want to help release and remove that energy from a location?
Human beings are notorious for causing harm through ignorance. All we need to do is look back through our own history at the shocking ways we've treated each other out of ignorance and one can see the all too familiar trend. How can we further emotionally entrap these souls for the sake of tourism income. Wouldn't we help a fellow living human if they were suffering? You couldn't imagine imprisoning a fellow living human so that other humans could visit and emotionally torment them for fun and excitement so why is a blind eye being turned in these instances? A lot of truths are being conveniently ignored in ghost tourism and I feel it's time to increase awareness of the possible harm this could be doing to emotionally aware entities so that ghost hunters can act more sensitively and responsibly. It is my hope that perhaps even in the future there can be legal protection from emotional abuse for these entities and the granting of spiritual aid in order to help them to the other side.
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